IDG News Service - Siemens is warning customers of a new and highly
sophisticated virus that targets the computers used to manage large-scale
industrial control systems used by manufacturing and utility companies.

"This has all the hallmarks of weaponized software, probably for espionage,"
said Jake Brodsky, an IT worker with a large utility, who asked that his
company not be identified because he was not authorized to speak on its
behalf.

Other industrial systems security experts agreed, saying the malicious
software was written by a sophisticated and determined attacker. The
software does not exploit a bug in the Siemens system to get onto a PC, but
instead uses a previously undisclosed Windows bug to break into the system.

The virus targets Siemens management software called Simatic WinCC, which
runs on the Windows operating system

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...strial_secrets

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